Lydda Airport
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Lydda Airport was the original main international airport of Mandatory Palestine, later expanded and renamed Ben-Gurion Airport, now Israel’s primary international gateway.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lydda Airport canonical | 9 |
| Lydda airfield | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2489315 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lydda Airport Context triple: [Ben-Gurion Airport, openedAs, Lydda Airport]
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A.
Ozar Airport
Ozar Airport is a public airport serving the city of Nashik in Maharashtra, India, handling both civilian and limited military aviation operations.
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B.
Haifa Airport
Haifa Airport is a small international airport in northern Israel serving domestic flights and limited regional routes for the city of Haifa.
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C.
Orly Airport
Orly Airport is a major international airport serving Paris, France, located south of the city and handling a large share of its domestic and European flights.
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D.
Sde Boker airstrip
Sde Boker airstrip is a small regional airfield in the Negev Desert of southern Israel serving the Sde Boker community and nearby desert research and tourism sites.
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E.
Port Said Airport
Port Said Airport is a regional airport in northeastern Egypt serving the city of Port Said near the Mediterranean coast and the northern entrance to the Suez Canal.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lydda Airport Target entity description: Lydda Airport was the original main international airport of Mandatory Palestine, later expanded and renamed Ben-Gurion Airport, now Israel’s primary international gateway.
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A.
Ozar Airport
Ozar Airport is a public airport serving the city of Nashik in Maharashtra, India, handling both civilian and limited military aviation operations.
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B.
Haifa Airport
Haifa Airport is a small international airport in northern Israel serving domestic flights and limited regional routes for the city of Haifa.
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C.
Orly Airport
Orly Airport is a major international airport serving Paris, France, located south of the city and handling a large share of its domestic and European flights.
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D.
Sde Boker airstrip
Sde Boker airstrip is a small regional airfield in the Negev Desert of southern Israel serving the Sde Boker community and nearby desert research and tourism sites.
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E.
Port Said Airport
Port Said Airport is a regional airport in northeastern Egypt serving the city of Port Said near the Mediterranean coast and the northern entrance to the Suez Canal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Lydda Airport Description of subject: Lydda Airport was the original main international airport of Mandatory Palestine, later expanded and renamed Ben-Gurion Airport, now Israel’s primary international gateway.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.